WXXW-LP

Last updated
WXXW-LP
Channels
Programming
Affiliations Defunct
Ownership
OwnerJohnson Broadcasting Company, Inc.
History
Former call signs
W06CC (2004–2008)
Technical information
Class LP
ERP 16 watts
Transmitter coordinates 42°06′00″N75°54′32″W / 42.10000°N 75.90889°W / 42.10000; -75.90889

WXXW-LP (channel 6) was a low-power television station in Binghamton, New York, United States. The station was owned by the Johnson Broadcasting Company (unrelated to the Houston-based broadcaster).

WXXW-LP operated as a "Franken-FM," an analog television station that took advantage of the NTSC standard, in which the audio feed can be tuned in on any analog FM radio at the proper frequency; for channel 6, the frequency is 87.75 MHz, just below the FM band. As such, WXXW-LP was programmed as a radio station at 87.7 with an urban oldies format billed as "Passion Radio."

WXXW-LP ceased broadcasting on or shortly before July 13, 2021, the date set by the Federal Communications Commission for all remaining low-power television stations to cease broadcasting in analog. Johnson Broadcasting Company held a construction permit to return to the air on the same channel 6. [1] WXXW-LP's license was canceled on July 8, 2022, [2] due to the station failing to file an application for digital operation prior to the expiration of its construction permit.

Related Research Articles

W45DX-D, UHF digital channel 45, is a low-powered HSN-affiliated television station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

WTBS-LD Television station in Georgia, United States

WTBS-LD, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is a low-powered television station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The station has been owned by Prism Broadcasting since 1991. The station's transmitter and antenna are located in downtown Atlanta atop the American Tower Site located at 315 Chester Avenue, Atlanta.

KSFV-CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 27, is a low-powered, Class A Jewelry Television-affiliated television station licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States. The station is owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, and transmits from the Mount Harvard Radio Site in the San Gabriel Mountains.

WNYZ-LD is a low-power television station in New York City, owned by K Media. The station's transmitter is located at One Court Square in Long Island City, Queens.

WTCL-LP LPTV station in Cleveland

WTCL-LP, virtual channel 6, is a low-power Telemundo-affiliated television station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Owned by Atlanta-based Gray Television, WTCL-LP also functions as a repeater for its full power Cleveland sister stations—Shaker Heights–licensed CBS affiliate WOIO and Lorain-licensed CW affiliate WUAB. This is similar to another sister station, Canton-licensed WOHZ-CD, which also serves as a repeater for WOIO and WUAB, but in the southern part of the market.

KBBA-LP was a low-power television station in Lake Havasu City, Arizona broadcasting on analog channel 10 from a transmitter site about five miles north of the city. The station provided visitors and residents with a continuous video feed from a camera looking over the Lake Havasu City area, as seen from the broadcast site.

KPCE-LD is a low-power television station in Tucson, Arizona, owned and operated by Word of God Fellowship, the business entity for the Daystar Television Network. It operates in digital on UHF channel 29 with its transmitter in the Tucson Mountains, west of downtown Tucson.

KVSW-LP was a low-power television station serving Winslow, Arizona, which broadcast locally in analog on UHF channel 38 as an affiliate of America One Television Network. The station was owned by Village Broadcasting Corp., a subsidiary of Longfoot Communications Corp. of Los Angeles, California and was the first television station owned by Longfoot Communications to be licensed. The station ceased operations November 28, 2007, and the owners surrendered its license to the FCC.

KUVM-CD, virtual channel 34, is a low-powered, Class A LATV-affiliated television station licensed to Houston, Texas, United States. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings. KUVM-CD's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.

KNIK-LP, VHF analog channel 6, is a low-powered television station licensed to Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The station is one of very few low-power television stations that operate predominantly as a radio station by way of the fact that many FM radio receivers can tune in a VHF channel 6 television audio carrier at 87.75 MHz. This technique is made more potent due to a formerly unforeseen interpretation of deregulatory language in FCC low-power television station regulations:

Sec. 73.653 Operation of TV aural and visual transmitters.

The aural and visual transmitters may be operated independently of each other or, if operated simultaneously, may be used with different and unrelated program material.

KZNO-LD, virtual channel 12, is a low-power Jewelry Television–affiliated station licensed to Big Bear Lake, California, United States. Owned by the Venture Technologies Group, it transmits from Mount Harvard, a peak adjacent to Mount Wilson in Los Angeles County, as a Spanish-language religious radio station that can be received at 87.7 FM. Its ATSC 3.0 video feed broadcasts Jewelry TV on digital channel 6.1.

KLOA-LP, VHF analog channel 6, was a low powered television station licensed to Inyokern, California, United States. Because the allocation of channel 6 in NTSC approximately within the lower fringes of the FM broadcast band, KLOA-LP took advantage of the station's audio carrier, broadcasting on 87.75 MHz, and marketed itself as a radio station. It aired a Classic Country format under the moniker "87.7 Country Gold". According to the Federal Communications Commission, television stations must operate both the audio and video carriers; however, the carriers are not required to "accompany" each other, meaning that the audio and video can operate independently of one another. This meant that KLOA-LP needed not broadcast any particular image, as long as they broadcast a video signal.

KNNN-LP, VHF analog channel 6, known on-air as Hella Radio 87.7 FM, was a low-powered indie and alternative rock radio and television station licensed to Redding, California, United States. Founded September 16, 2003 by Venture Technologies Group, LLC, the station is now owned by Walker Broadcast Group LLC. The station formerly operates and markets itself as a radio station using the audio portion of NTSC channel 6 to broadcast audio. Although the station no longer airs over the air due to the FCC mandated digital television conversion on low-powered stations, Hella Radio continues to air online.

WDCN-LD, VHF digital channel 6, branded on air as La Nueva 87.7, is a low-powered Spanish-language television station licensed to Washington, D.C., United States. WDCN-LD markets itself as a conventional radio station broadcasting Spanish contemporary hits.

This is a list of low-powered television stations (LPTV) in the United States, transmitting on VHF channel 6, which operate as radio stations capable of being picked up by standard FM receivers. These stations are colloquially known as "Franken FMs", a reference to Frankenstein's monster, because TV stations functioning as radio stations had not been envisioned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC commonly refers to these stations as "FM6" operations.

WIIW-LD, UHF digital channel 14, is a low-powered independent television station that will be licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by U.S. Television.

KUHD-LD, UHF channel 44, branded on-air as Nueva Vision 360, is a low powered television station licensed to Ventura, California, United States. The station is owned by Obidia Porras.

KSHW-LP, VHF analog channel 6, was a low-powered television station licensed to Sheridan, Wyoming, United States. The station was last owned by Lovcom, Inc., and last broadcast a sports radio format with programming from Fox Sports Radio.

KGHD-LD is a low-power television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The station is owned by Obidia Porras.

WNTU-LD and WNPX-LD are low-powered Daystar-owned-and-operated television stations licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The stations are owned by the Daystar Television Network.

References

  1. Tyler the Antenna Man (July 16, 2021). "The Last Day of Analog TV in the US Documented". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
  2. https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityDetails.html?facilityId=129224